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Claude AI finds Vim, Emacs RCE bugs that trigger on file open

Vulnerabilities in the Vim and GNU Emacs text editors, discovered using simple prompts with the Claude assistant, allow remote code execution simply by opening a file. The assistant also created multiple versions of proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits, refined them, and provided suggestions to address the security issues. Vim and GNU Emacs are programmable text editors primarily used by developers and sysadmins for code editing, terminal-based workflows, and scripting. Vim in particular is widely us...

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